Contrary to what you may believe, purchasing software rarely means you own it. In reality, the software most often still belongs to the company or developer and what you purchase is a software license ...

Virtualisation sets a number of software-licensing traps for the unwary, but they can largely be avoided through some sensible precautions, says Manek Dubash. IBM was embarrassed after it launched its ...

Does software have copyright? Even more specifically, is the Internet free inspite of software copyright? Are software programming languages free of cost? How does copyright apply to software? A ...

Reuse is not a matter for debate with proprietary software. When developers produce software in-house, they create a piece of intellectual property that is guarded through the restrictions of a ...

Software licensing costs are set to fall over the next decade as IT industry trends converge to give buyers more bargaining power. Analyst Gartner predicts vendors will find themselves increasingly ...

Software is essential in modern business, but managing licences is often overlooked. Many companies sign up for tools as they grow, then lose track of who is using what. Over time, this can lead to ...

Many organisations can cut spending on software by as much as 30% by implementing three software licence optimisation best practices, according to Gartner. The keys to reducing software licence ...

The essential protection of software stems from intellectual property rights, primarily copyright. When the UK left the European Union (EU), at a superficial level nothing changed because the essence ...

The district court of Hamburg has ruled against SAP, over its case against a German second-user software license reseller. The court’s decision builds on a 2012 European Court of Justice landmark ...